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24 Preludes (Shostakovich)

The 24 Preludes, Op. 34 is a set of short piano pieces written and premiered by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933. They are arranged following the circle of fifths, with one prelude in each major and minor

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24 Preludes and Fugues (Shostakovich)

The 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich are a set of 24 musical pieces for solo piano, one in each of the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale. The cycle was composed in 1950

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American premieres of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7

The American broadcast premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was performed by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini on July 19, 1942. This was followed by the American

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Antiformalist Rayok

Antiformalist Rayok (), also known as Learner's Manual, without opus number, is a rayok or satirical cantata for four voices, chorus, and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. It is subtitled As an aid to

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Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)

The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 107, was composed in 1959 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich wrote the work for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich, who committed it to memory in four days.

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Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 126, in 1966 in the Crimea. Like the First Cello Concerto, it was written for Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premiere in Moscow under

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Cello Sonata (Shostakovich)

The Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40, was composed in 1934 by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was also a period of emotional turmoil in his life, as he had fallen in love with a young student at a Leningrad

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Children's Notebook

Children's Notebook (), also known as A Child's Exercise Book, Op. 69 is a suite for piano composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. Although precise dating is uncertain, it is believed to have been composed

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Concerto (ballet)

Concerto is a one-act ballet in three movements created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1966 for the Deutsche Oper Ballet. The music is Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto (1957). The ballet

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Concerto DSCH

Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 (1957). The premiere took place

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Festive Overture

The Festive Overture (), Op. 96 is an orchestral work composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1954. Commissioned for the Bolshoi Theatre's celebration of the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution,

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Five Fragments

The Five Fragments, Op. 42 is a suite for small orchestra composed on June 9, 1935, by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was the only work, apart from film music, that he composed that year. He approached it

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Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin

The Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin () by Dmitri Shostakovich is a song cycle composed in 1974. It is his final vocal work. Despite having a lifelong appreciation for the writings of Fyodor

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From Jewish Folk Poetry

From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79, is a song cycle for soprano, contralto, tenor and piano (or orchestra) by Dmitri Shostakovich. It uses texts taken from the collection Jewish folk songs, compiled by

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Ill Manors (song)

"Ill Manors" (stylised as "iLL Manors") is a hip hop protest song by English singer-songwriter Plan B. The track was released in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2012 as the lead single from the

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Intervision (Shostakovich)

Intervision () is a brief orchestral work by Dmitri Shostakovich composed in 1971. It was commissioned by the Intervision Network for use in its news

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Katyusha Maslova

Katyusha Maslova () is an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich, with a libretto by Anatoly Mariengof, based on the novel Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy. Shostakovich received a commission from the

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King Lear (Shostakovich film score)

King Lear (), Op. 137, is a film score composed by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1971 film King Lear by Grigori Kozintsev, based on Shakespeare's tragedy. It is Shostakovich's last completed film

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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera)

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29 (), is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by Dmitri Shostakovich. The libretto, jointly written by Alexander Preis and the composer, is based on the novella Lady

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Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7

Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 had its Leningrad première on 9 August 1942 during the Second World War, while the city was under siege by the Nazi German forces. Shostakovich had intended the

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Loyalty (Shostakovich)

Loyalty (; also translated as Faith, Truth, Correctness, Faithfulness, or Fidelity), Op. 136 is a cycle of eight ballads for men's chorus a capella composed by Dmitri Shostakovich based upon texts by

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March of the Soviet Militia

The "March of the Soviet Militia" (), Op. 139 is a march for military band composed in 1970 by Dmitri

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Mercurial Manoeuvres

Mercurial Manoeuvres is a ballet choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, with costumes designed by Carole Divet. The ballet premiered on April 28, 2000 at the

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Moscow, Cheryomushki

Moscow, Cheryomushki (; Moskva, Cheryómushki) is an operetta in three acts by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Op. 105. It is sometimes referred to as simply Cheryomushki. Cheryomushki is a district in

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October (Shostakovich)

October, Op. 131, is a symphonic poem composed by Dmitri Shostakovich to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1967. He was spurred to compose the work after

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Orango (Shostakovich)

Orango is an unfinished satirical opera sketched in 1932 by Dmitri Shostakovich. The manuscript was found by Olga Digonskaya, a Russian musicologist, in the Glinka Museum, Moscow in 2004. The plan

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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)

The Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35, was completed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933. The concerto was premiered on 15 October 1933 in the season opening concerts of

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Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in 1957 for the 19th birthday of his son Maxim, who premiered the piece on 10 May 1957 during his graduation concert

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Piano Quintet (Shostakovich)

The Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57, is a five-movement composition for two violins, viola, cello, and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich. He composed it between July 13 and September 14, 1940. Sources

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Piano Sonata No. 2 (Shostakovich)

The Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61 by Dmitri Shostakovich, the last of his piano sonatas, was composed in early 1943. It was his first solo piano composition since 1933, as well as his second

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Piano Trio No. 1 (Shostakovich)

Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8, in C minor for violin, violoncello and piano is a very early chamber composition by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was performed privately in early 1924, but was not published until

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Piano Trio No. 2 (Shostakovich)

The Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, is a piece for violin, cello and piano by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, started in late 1943 and completed in August the following year. It was

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Quartet Movement in E-flat major (Shostakovich)

The Quartet Movement in E major, also known as the Unfinished Quartet, is the first movement of a projected string quartet in E major by Dmitri Shostakovich, rediscovered in

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Scherzo in F-sharp minor (Shostakovich)

Scherzo in F minor (Op. 1) is a piece for orchestra written by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975). Shostakovich was a Russian composer and pianist during the Soviet era. It was most likely written in

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Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva

The Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva: Suite for Contralto and Piano (), Op. 143 is a song cycle by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was composed in 1973 and originally scored for contralto and piano. In 1974,

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Song of the Forests

The Song of the Forests (Песнь о лесах), Op. 81, is an oratorio by Dmitri Shostakovich composed in the summer of 1949. It was written to celebrate the forestation of the Russian steppes (Great Plan

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String Quartet No. 1 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49, was composed in six weeks during the summer of 1938. He began to work on the quartet on the morning of May 10, 1938 (on the second

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String Quartet No. 10 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 10 in A major, Op. 118, was composed from 9 to 20 July 1964. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet in Moscow and is dedicated to composer Mieczysław

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String Quartet No. 12 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 12 in D major, Op. 133, was composed in 1968. It is dedicated to Dmitri Tsyganov, the first violinist of the Beethoven Quartet, which premiered the work in

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String Quartet No. 13 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 13 in B minor, Op. 138, was first conceived in 1969, and completed in 1970 as Shostakovich was undergoing treatment at the Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center

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String Quartet No. 15 (Shostakovich)

The String Quartet No. 15 in E minor, Op. 144 by Dmitri Shostakovich is the composer's last. It was his first quartet since the Sixth (and only one of three) which did not bear a

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String Quartet No. 16 (Shostakovich)

The String Quartet No. 16 in B major is an unrealized musical composition by Dmitri

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String Quartet No. 2 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68, was completed in September 1944 in just nineteen days in Ivanovo, 300 kilometres north-east of Moscow. It was premiered by the Beethoven

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String Quartet No. 3 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73, was composed in 1946. He wrote most of it between May and August of 1946 at his summer home in Kellomäki (presently known as Komarovo).

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String Quartet No. 7 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich began work on his String Quartet No. 7 in F minor, Op. 108, in May 1959 and completed it in March 1960. He dedicated it to the memory of his first wife Nina Vassilyevna Varzar,

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String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110, was written in three days (12–14 July

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String Quartet No. 9 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 9 in E major, Op. 117, was composed in 1964 and premiered by the Beethoven Quartet. The Ninth Quartet was dedicated to his third wife, Irina Antonovna

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Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 (Shostakovich)

The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 (commonly known as Jazz Suite No. 1) by Dmitri Shostakovich was composed in

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Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1

The Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1 () is a suite in eight movements arranged by after 1956, based on music by Dmitri Shostakovich. An editorial error in the tenth volume of the Shostakovich

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Suite on Finnish Themes

The Suite on Finnish Themes () or Seven Arrangements of Finnish Folk Songs (Семь обработок финских народных песен) is a suite composed in 1939 for soloists (soprano and tenor) and chamber ensemble in

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Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti (, Op.145, 1974) is a cycle of song settings by Dmitri Shostakovich of eleven poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti, translated into the Russian language by

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Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1924–1925, and first performed in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Nicolai Malko on 12 May 1926. Shostakovich

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Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93, by Dmitri Shostakovich was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953. It is not clear when it was written.

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Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 (subtitled The Year 1905), by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957. The

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Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich)

Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112, titled The Year 1917, was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1961. He dedicated it to the memory of Vladimir Lenin. Although the performance on October 1, 1961,

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Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 13 in B minor, Op. 113 for bass soloist, bass chorus, and large orchestra was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1962. It consists of five movements, each a setting of a Yevgeny

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Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135, by Dmitri Shostakovich was completed in the spring of 1969, and was premiered later that year. It is a work for soprano, bass and a small string orchestra

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Symphony No. 15 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141, composed between late 1970 and July 29, 1971, is the final symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich. He began to plan and sketch the symphony, originally intended as a

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Symphony No. 2 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14, subtitled To October, for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic

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Symphony No. 3 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 3 in E major (subtitled The First of May), Op. 20 by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and Academy Capella Choir under Aleksandr Gauk on

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Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43, was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich between September 1935 and May 1936. He had made an earlier, unrelated draft in 1934, but eventually abandoned it. In

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Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on 21 November 1937, in Leningrad by the

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Symphony No. 6 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1939, and first performed in Leningrad on November 5, 1939, by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny

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Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, nicknamed the Leningrad Symphony, was begun in Leningrad, completed in the city of Samara (then known as Kuybyshev) in December 1941, and

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Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on 4 November of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky,

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Symphony No. 9 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No. 9 in E major, Op. 70, was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1945. It was premiered on 3 November 1945 in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny

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Tahiti Trot

Tahiti Trot () (or Tea for Two), Op. 16, is an arrangement for symphony orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich of the song "Tea for Two" from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans. It was composed

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The Big Lightning

The Big Lightning (also sometimes The Great Lightning, , Bolshaya molniya) is an unfinished opera sketched in 1932 by Dmitri Shostakovich. The manuscript was found by Olga Digonskaya. Some of the

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The Bolt (Shostakovich)

The Bolt (), Op. 27, is a ballet music score written by Dmitri Shostakovich between 1930 and 1931 to a libretto by . The humorous and satirical full-length ballet in three acts and seven scenes was

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The Counterplan Song

The Counterplan Song (The Morning Greets Us With Coolness) (Russian: "Песня о встречном (Нас утро встречает прохладой") is a Soviet song created for the 1932 propaganda drama film Counterplan, which

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The Execution of Stepan Razin

The Execution of Stepan Razin (Russian «Казнь Степана Разина») (Op. 119) is a cantata composed by Dimitri Shostakovich to a libretto by Yevgeny Yevtushenko in 1964. The subject is the execution of

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The Gamblers (Shostakovich)

The Gamblers (), Op. 63, is an unfinished opera, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1941/42 to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy The Gamblers (1842). The surviving first act lasts

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The Golden Age (Shostakovich)

The Golden Age or The Age of Gold (), Op. 22, is a ballet in three acts and six scenes by Dmitri Shostakovich to a libretto by Alexander Ivanovsky. Choreographed by Vasili Vainonen (first act),

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The Limpid Stream

The Limpid Stream (, also translated as The Bright Stream), Op. 39, is a ballet in 3 acts, 4 scenes, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich on the libretto by Adrian Piotrovsky and Fyodor Lopukhov, with

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The Nose (opera)

The Nose, Op. 15, () is Dmitri Shostakovich's first opera, a satirical work completed in 1928 based on Nikolai Gogol's 1836 story of the same

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The Phoenix (Fall Out Boy song)

"The Phoenix" is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy for their fifth studio album Save Rock and Roll (2013). The song was written by the band in collaboration with Butch Walker, who handled

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The Sun Shines Over Our Motherland

The Sun Shines Over Our Motherland (), Op.90 is a cantata composed in 1952 by Dimitri Shostakovich, based on a text by Yevgeny Dolmatovsky. Originally titled Cantata About the Party, it was

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The Unforgettable Year 1919 (Shostakovich)

The Unforgettable Year 1919 (), Op. 89a, is a suite of music adapted from the score written by Dmitri Shostakovich for the 1951 film of the same name directed by Mikheil Chiaureli. The suite was

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Three Fantastic Dances

The Three Fantastic Dances (), Op. 5 are a set of three piano pieces composed by Dmitri Shostakovich while he was a student at the Petrograd Conservatory. They are dedicated to Iosif Shvarts, a

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Viola Sonata (Shostakovich)

The Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147, is the last composition by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was completed on July 5, 1975, weeks before his death. It is dedicated to Fyodor Druzhinin, violist of the

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Violin Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)

The Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (99), was originally composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1947–48. He was still working on the piece at the time of the Zhdanov Doctrine, and it could not

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Violin Sonata (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, Op. 134 in the autumn of 1968 in Moscow, completing it on October 23. It is set in three movements and lasts approximately 31

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Yelabuga Nail

"Yelabuga Nail" () is an unfinished song composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in early 1971. It was premiered in 2025 in a completion by Alexander

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